Indian Space Station

ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C27, successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1D, the fourth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) today evening (March 28, 2015) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the twenty eighth consecutively successful mission of the PSLV. The 'XL' configuration of PSLV was used for this mission. Previously, the same configuration of the vehicle was successfully used seven times.

After the PSLV-C27 lift-off at 1719 hrs IST from the Second Launch Pad with the ignition of the first stage, the subsequent important flight events, namely, strap-on ignitions and separations, first stageseparation, second stage ignition, heat-shield separation, second stage separation, third stage ignition and separation, fourth stage ignition and satellite injection, took place as planned. After a flight of about 19 minutes 25 seconds, IRNSS-1D Satellite was injected to an elliptical orbit of 282.52 km X 20,644 km (very close to the intended orbit) and successfully separated from the PSLV fourth stage.

Internship Opportunity: Marketing and Business development

Suitable for students pursuing their management studiesLast Day: April 19th, 2015

Indian Space Station is pleased announce an internship opportunity for students pursuing management study in Bangalore. The details are as follows,

Duration: 4 MonthsEducation: MBA (Preferred), however there is no restriction for good candidates with keen interest in this field and for this opportunityAvailable openings: 1 - 2Full-time/Part-time: Preferably full-time but there is an option for part-time as wellMode of Work: Work from university campus or work from homeCandidate Location: BangaloreInternship Profile:

To work on business development and marketing strategy for Indian Space Station.

To take care of the various workshops/outreach programs being organized by ISS team.

Akshaya Rane, West Virginia University

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense bursts of energy considered to be coming from outside our galaxy. We have found only 11 such bursts so far and hence we still don’t know much about these objects, which makes their study very interesting.

In 2007, while analyzing a survey data obtained with Parkes telescope in Australia (See, figure 1), my Ph. D. advisor, Dr. Duncan Lorimer and his group found a radio burst having extreme brightness that lasted for only a few milliseconds from a seemingly blank region of the sky. The Parkes radio telescope has a 64-m dish and various pulsar searching surveys have been carried out with it, and out of the total ~2400 pulsars known so far, almost half of them have been discovered with this telescope.

ISRO eyes India's first satellite for astronomy study

AHMEDABAD: After ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) got applause from across the globe, the space agency has now set its eyes on the next major technical achievement - a multisensory astronomy satellite, or Astrosat. A S Kiran Kumar, chairman of ISRO, told the scientists gathered for Gujarat Science Congress at Science City on Saturday, that they hope to achieve new landmarks with the country's first satellite dedicated for astronomy studies.

Hows´ & Whys´ of PISAT satellite: Keplarian Approach

PISat PISat is a student satellite developed by CORI of PESIT,Bangalore,India. It is a nanosatellite which measures 254 x 256x 181 mm and weighs about 5.3Kg. The payload in this satellite is imaging system which works in visible region. Band of operation is S-band :uplink frequency is 2030MHz and downlink frequency is 2240MHz. The modulation scheme employed in uplink is FSK/FM and mod-ulation scheme employed in downlink is BPSK. Satellite will orbit at the height of 630km in sun- synchronous orbit with the inclination of 97.86 degree.

India ready for own space mission: K Radhakrishnan, former Isro

PANAJI: Human space flight is possible for India according to feasibility studies carried out by the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), and the body is looking at preparing a crew of humans and robots for the mission, former ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said in Panaji on Saturday.

Calling human space flight the next logical step, he said the mission is targeting a weeklong journey.

"Human space flight is in our plans. In 2006-07 a feasibility study began on the capability of India to launch a human space flight. The spacecraft will travel 275 to 400 million kilometres around the earth for a week and on its return will launch in the ocean. We found it is feasible," Radhakrishnan told the D D Kosambi Festival of Ideas.

As for the crew, he said, "Robots will do what they are programmed to do and humans have cognitive capability. We are looking at the mix of the two as is the case around the world."

The ISS team member, Ms. Manasa Perikala, had an opportunity to interact with Mr Raja VLN Sridhar, Scientist from laboratory for elector-optics systems, Bangalore. In this interviews, he gives a detailed information about his contribution in Chandrayaan-1, Mangalyaan and in the upcoming Chandrayaan-2 mission. In addition, he also talks about the work culture in ISRO and the opportunities available to the students.

Please visit the rest of the section to read the detailed interview.

Q1. Could you please introduce yourself to our audience?Hello to all…! First of all thank you very much for the warm wishes, indeed this spectacular success of MOM is attributed to all Indians, who had kept faith on us (ISRO Scientists/Engineers) and have been always with us during ups and downs. Genuinely, such an awesome support motivates us to dream and realize this kind of ambitious and challenging goals along with the prime focus on ‘Space technology in the service of Human kind’. Coming to myself, I am an engineer/scientist working in Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS) in Bangalore, one of the vital units of ISRO responsible for development of attitude and navigation sensors (crucial for Satellite navigation), telescopes for Remote-Sensing Satellites and elector-optical Scientific Instruments [like LLRI/Chandrayann-1, LAP/MOM, LIBS/Chandrayaan-2 (to be flown)]. I have joined ISRO in 2006 and since then been involved in development of planetary science instruments.

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